STRATFOR - There has been massive confusion over a denial made by the
Israelis that the Scotland Yard had warned the Israeli Embassy in London
of possible terrorist attacks "minutes before" the first bomb
went off July 7. Israel warned London of the attacks a "couple of
days ago," but British authorities failed to respond accordingly
to deter the attacks, according to an unconfirmed rumor circulating in
intelligence circles.

While Israel is keeping quiet for the time-being, British Prime Minister
Tony Blair soon will be facing the heat for his failure to take action.
The Associated Press reported July 7 that an anonymous source in the Israeli
Foreign Ministry said Scotland Yard had warned the Israeli Embassy in
London of possible terrorist attacks in the U.K. capital. The information
reportedly was passed to the embassy minutes before the first bomb struck
at 0851 London time. The Israeli Embassy promptly ordered Israeli Finance
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to remain in his hotel on the morning of July
7. Netanyahu was scheduled to participate in an Israeli Investment Forum
Conference at the Grand Eastern Hotel, located next to the Liverpool Street
Tube station -- the first target in the series of bombings that hit London
on July 7.

Several hours later, Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom officially
denied reports that Scotland Yard passed any information to Israel regarding
the bombings, and British police denied they had any advanced warning
of the attacks. The British authorities similarly denied that any information
exchange had occurred.

Contrary to original claims that Israel was warned "minutes before"
the first attack, unconfirmed rumors in intelligence circles indicate
that the Israeli government actually warned London of the attacks "a
couple of days" previous. Israel has apparently given other warnings
about possible attacks that turned out to be aborted operations. The British
government did not want to disrupt the G-8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland,
or call off visits by foreign dignitaries to London, hoping this would
be another false alarm.

The British government sat on this information for days and failed to
respond. Though the Israeli government is playing along publicly, it may
not stay quiet for long. This is sure to apply pressure on Blair very
soon for his failure to deter this major terrorist attack.
http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news2/stratfor-london.html

ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS SERVICE - Army Radio quoting unconfirmed reliable
sources reported a short time ago that Scotland Yard had intelligence
warnings of the attacks a short time before they occurred. The Israeli
Embassy in London was notified in advance, resulting in Finance Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu remaining in his hotel room rather than make his way
to the hotel adjacent to the site of the first explosion, a Liverpool
Street train station, where he was to address and economic summit.

Giuliani
in London

It might be a coincidence that Rudy Giuliani was in London when 7/7 happened.
The best description of Giuliani's involvement in 9/11 is in Michael Ruppert's
book "Crossing the Rubicon."

Giuliani brings New York message to region
William Green
Political Correspondent
TONY Blair was yesterday credited with helping curb terrorism by former New York Mayor Rudolph
Giuliani who became famous for his leadership following the September
11 attacks.
Speaking in Yorkshire, Mr Giuliani said he had a lot of respect for
the Prime Minister and US President George Bush for sticking to a tough
line on terrorism – even when it became unpopular.
He said the world had allowed terrorists to "get out of control"
by failing to take the problem seriously enough over 30 years, with
those responsible allowed to get away.
Mr Giuliani said terrorists were too often released in the past by governments
because they were afraid of them, comparing it to the mistakes made
in the 1930s over Hitler.
But New York's ex-mayor, who was in charge when the city's Twin Towers
were attacked in 2001, said that Mr Blair and Mr Bush were now leading
an effective fight against the terrorists.
"I think their determined response to it, against public opinion
very often, has helped keep us safe and I think if they had been more
typical of some of our politicians, they would have shifted because
of public opinion
which would have been disastrous."
He added: "I have great respect for their setting a very determined
policy as regard to terrorism, sticking with it when it became unpopular
and I credit the fact we have been able to reduce terrorism to what
they have done."
Mr Giuliani spoke out about the battle against terrorism and his admiration
for Mr Blair in a speech about leadership to UK councillors at the Local
Government Association conference in Harrogate.
He said effective and optimistic leadership was vital to improving people's
lives, saying: "If the captain of a ship doesn't have a direction,
then it doesn't go anywhere."
But the US politician stressed that leadership had to be backed up by
a clear set of ideas, a programme to deliver those goals and accountability
via clear measurements of success.
Using the example of New York, Mr Giuliani told the conference that
the city had been transformed under his leadership using these methods
with crime being cut by 65 per cent, the economy growing and thousands
being taken off welfare benefit.
But tackling smaller issues was also important to ensure more serious
problems were contained, and he used the example of how he took so-called
"squeegy" operators off his city's streets.
Those people cleaned car windscreens in the road and expected money
in return, even if the motorist didn't want the service, and the problem
was getting out of hand in New York.
Mr Giuliani tackled the problem by giving them summonses for jay-walking,
and in the process discovered that half were wanted for other crimes.
Delegates at the conference responded warmly to Mr Giuliani's speech,
giving him a standing ovation after he finished answering questions
from the audience.
william.green@ypn.co.uk
07 July 2005

Who took
credit? A website hosted at a Houston based internet company with
ties to Bush

The claim of responsibility for the London attacks was first posted
on one of the dozens of Islamic websites that are routinely monitored
by western intelligence services.
The statement, under the name of the Secret Organisation of the al-Qaida
Jihad in Europe, said: "The heroic mujahideen have carried out
a blessed raid in London. Britain is now burning with fear, terror and
panic in its northern, southern, eastern and western quarters."It
was posted on an Arabic website, al-qal3ah.com, which is registered
by Qalaah Qalaah in Abu Dhabi and hosted by a server in Houston, Texas.
....

The server in Houston has intriguing connections. Everyone's Internet
was founded by brothers Robert and Roy Marsh in 1998 and by 2002 had
an income of more than $30m (now about GBP17m).
Renowned for his charitable work, Roy Marsh counts among his friends
President George Bush's former sister-in-law, Sharon Bush, and the president's
navy secretary.

Many "Islamist extremist" websites are hosted in the United
States - here's an interesting compilation

Alex Jones, who runs an internet radio show called "Infowars,"
ran an article shortly after the 7/7 atrocity claiming that a simultaneous
"exercise" was underway in the London Underground that was used
to mask the real events - similar to the multiple, overlapping war
game exercises that were used on 9/11 to confuse the air defenses.
However, there are several problems with this story.

Jones evidently did not make any effort to conduct any original
research to verify whether this was true or not, and the scope
of the exercise underway if real. Given the prominence of the G8 summit
and the intense anger about the US / UK war on Iraq in the Islamic world, it would be very surprising if some sort of emergency planning efforts
were NOT underway at the start of the G8 summit - and therefore
at the moment of the actual terror attack.

Jones has a history of floating fake information about the
9/11 war games - which distracts from serious work documented
in Michael Ruppert's book "Crossing the Rubicon." Jones has
published claims that a "defense shield" over Washington was
de-activated on 9/11 by the wargames, that the November 2004 election
would be disrupted by terror exercises on Election Day masking real
terror events (a distraction from the real conspiracies to rig
the election via voting machines and other,
more traditional tactics) and reportedly claimed that attorney Daniel
Sheehan was the real source for information about the 9/11 wargames
shortly after Michael Ruppert announced the publication of "Crossing
the Rubicon." While there are many grassroots investigators who
have collated accurate information about the 9/11 wargames, Mr. Sheehan
has not apparently been one of them.

it would be extremely easy to create a fake story about a
non-existent or irrelevant exercise, float it to the "electronic
vacuum cleaner" that Jones operates and let the conspiracy mongers
spread the viral meme all over the internet before anyone can triple-check
the facts. Getting the skeptics to believe in a fake story would further
diminish their credibility, and simultaneously discredit the real information
about the 9/11 war games (guilt by association is not an honorable tactic,
but it is standard operating procedure in the media)

On 9/11 there were multiple war games – at least 5 and as many
as 7 – that were conflicting and leaving the US wide open for
the exact planes as weapons scenarios they had received intelligence
about throughout the summer of 2001. It was a smoke screen to divert
the fighter jocks.
In London it appears to have been 1 drill. And as of right now there
is no evidence that this drill caused any problems to stop first responders
from doing their job.
This could go either way.
I am not saying this is nothing to be concerned with. But I am saying
it is not certain to be an inside job due to this one drill.
Perhaps it was an inside job.
As I said earlier at my blog, I am not going to spend time investigating
this because either way – whether its guerrilla warfare or false
flag – the result is the same.
peace eternal
m>k<

UK
Plans Iraq Troop Withdrawal :.
BOOM!
The Ministry of Defence has drafted plans for a significant withdrawal
of British troops from Iraq over the next 18 months and a big deployment
to Afghanistan, the Financial Times has learnt.
In what would represent the biggest operational shake-up involving the
armed forces since the Iraq war, the first stage of a run-down in military
operations is likely to take place this autumn with a handover of security
to Iraqis in at least two southern provinces.
posted by Kevin at 6:12 PM

Sex,
Drugs, Mind Control, and Gitmo :.
BOOM!
Many of the revelations in the New Yorker article ("The Experiment,"
by Jane Mayer, July 11 & 18, 2005 -- not yet available online, but
here's an interview with the author) are familiar, but there are hints
of techniques that mirror the most horrific (and mostly ignored) abuses
at Abu Ghraib and the historical accounts of government-sponsored mind
control. Baher Azmy, a professor at Seton Hall Law School who is representing
one detainee states in the article, "The whole place appears to
be one giant human experiment."
The people behind these psychological abuses and experiments are known
as Behavioral Science Consultation Teams, or BSCTs (commonly called
"biscuits"). Originally, BSCTs served as therapists and dispensed
psychotropic drugs to soldiers, and evaluated their combat readiness.
Post 9/11, however, their mission was altered -- instead of helping
soldiers, their talents were turned to interrogation and psychological
torture under the umbrella of military intelligence.
posted by Kevin at 5:42 PM

Karl
Rove Might Be Indicted :.
BOOM!
All the judges who have seen the prosecutor's secret evidence firmly
believe he is pursuing a very serious crime, and they have done everything
they can to help him get an indictment.
posted by Kevin at 5:07 PM

Is this another 9/11?
Was it an inside job?
My first reaction is regardless of whether or not this attack was an
inside job as 9/11 was, the effect is the same. I tip my hat in advance
to those who choose to investigate this in a calm, sober, rational way
based on the facts that emerge, but I will not be investigating this
myself.
My heart goes out to London, to the victims and their family. I was
15 miles from the World Trade Center on 9/11 on a college campus. I
remember seeing more than one young woman in tears trying to hold it
together long enough to place a call to find out if their father was
dead.
By spending thousands of hours investigating 9/11, making phone calls,
writing reports, going to Washington D.C., confronting military generals,
I have learned that such investigations do little-to-nothing to change
the body politic.
Question: Who benefits most from this attack on London civilians?
Answer: Bush & Blair
But, as Mike Ruppert wrote yesterday:

"We cannot rule out the possibility that these were actual terrorist
attacks. Lord knows, the US has made enough enemies in the last four
years."

From my standpoint, regardless of the intent of the perps behind this
and what their true identities are, the political landscape of importance
remains the same.

***

Civil liberties and the Constitution are under steady attack
A London-style attack is assumed by top military brass to be happening
soon in the US – perhaps nuclear
World War III is being planned as we speak
China and Russia now have a strong allegiance against the U.S.
Wall St. is scrambling to finance renewable energy projects (my report
is forthcoming on this at FTW – Renewable Energy Finance Forum,
Wall St”)
US officials such as Steve Westly (controller of California) are saying
to look to China for renewable energy investment and development opportunities
Gas is approaching $3 in the US: $5 not far away
The 2005 numbers on oil are bleak. Demand is about to outstrip supply.
A massive recession, and perhaps depression, is loomingPeak Oil is the biggest scientific news story
in the world outside of global warming yet nothing is being done about
it. Kyoto now comes into effect to at least somewhat address global
warming. What is the plan for peak?
2005 looks like the year when world oil production peaks
Unless over consumption is addressed and massive conservation efforts
begin the human race is doomed

***

From my vantage point, there is no time to investigate the
perps behind the London attacks. Whoever it was, they can pat themselves
on the back for helping their buddies Bush & Blair.
I will close with a summary of former Special Forces Master Sergeant
Stan Goff’s recent masterpiece THE
GLOBAL BATTLEFIELD The summary was written by my dear friend and colleague Dr. Jamey Hecht:

Synposis by Jamey Hecht
[In “The Global Battlefield,” Stan Goff establishes:
That a Pentagon strategic document called Strategy for Homeland Defense
and Civil Support, published just one week ago (June 30, 2005), grants
extraordinary domestic law enforcement powers to the President and to
the Secretary of Defense;
That these powers depend upon the continuous “state of war”
in effect since 9/14/01 which the Congress is legally empowered to suspend
– and legally required to re-assess every six months – but
Congress remains “afraid” to do so. Some members may be
financially interested in said “state of war”; others fail
to oppose it because they fear political reprisals; still others because
they remember the anthrax letters and the Wellstone assassination;
That this “state of war” serves as the warrant for applying
post-9/11 judicial precedents that abrogate civil rights including habeas
corpus, resulting in a state of partial, selective, de facto martial
law;
That in addition to its already-manifest potential for abuse against
selected targets like American activists, journalists, and political
opponents, this dubious new policy infrastructure authorizes a huge
escalation of the domestic military-police state, to be undertaken in
apparent response to putative terror attacks on U.S. soil;
That during the week of the S.H.D.C.S. policy document’s release,
high military officials leaked an anonymous statement to the press saying
that the U.S. military may no longer be capable of fighting two major
wars at one time – undermining the entire Rumsfeld vision, of
which the S.H.D.C.S. is the latest installment.
It is too early to tell whether the London attacks were false-flag terrorism
advanced by the British and / or American administrations for their
own purposes [perhaps including the eventual use of the powers in S.H.D.C.S.,
or their equivalent in post-7/7 British policy], or asymmetrical warfare
(i.e., terrorism) perpetrated by aggrieved victims of the Bush-Blair
wars on Iraq and Afghanistan. In either case, the effects seems to be
the same. The bombings divert attention from ongoing crises like the
Rove-Plame affair; China’s use of its current-account surplus
as leverage for buying Unocal; the general disaster of the Iraq war;
recent calls by over one hundred Parliamentarians of the U.S.-backed
Iraqi government urging the withdrawal of U.S. troops; and an equally
embarrassing new military training and support pact between this same
Iraqi government and the Iranian state which the Bush-Blair group seems
intent upon attacking. Finally, the London bombings upstaged the record
oil price of $62.10 which immediately preceded them, and they caused
investors to anticipate demand destruction, which dropped the price
back down. Quite apart from the actual price, the bombings also re-imbued
the world’s energy issues with deeply irrational emotions of revenge
and horror that might prevent civilians from reaching their own more
rational conclusions as to the causes of high energy prices –
and the underlying dangers posed by what more and more people recognize
as Peak Oil. -JAH]

Good article on 9/11 that compares it to "false flag"
terror perpetrated by fascists in Italy, most notoriously the bombing
of the Bologna train station in 1980 (which was blamed on the Communists
but they were not the perpetrators). This ugliness was euphemistically
called (by the perpetrators) the "strategy of tension."